No 'a' third party site. There are plenty of legit image hosting sites out there. It's not a perfect solution. It's a bandaid to at least give the players the ability while CCP corrects the fundamental issues with the interwebz.

Well, there we go, our posts are reflections of our opinion, obviously what I wrote is my opinion, and as I respect yours I do expect the same, for me they are superfluous, you make several good points that support your opinion, and I do respect that, the thing is, we now have to look at the forums in a different perspective, while before all the services were spread through different platforms/software (api, forums, account, etc) they're going to be inevitably under the same platform (and I do support that, from all perspectives, as a developer and as a user) the security concerns are allot greater, thus all this issue regarding images (or better yet, the inclusion of external resources), to add more to it, in an ssl enable session, which complicates things more due to how easily one can hijack ssl session with man in the middle attacks though it.

Now priorities wise, please do think in a team manager perspective where you have X amount of man hours available, Y amount of tasks to do and you need to manage this the best way possible, now depending on all tasks at hand, this 'feature' of allowing images in a signature, can be thought as superfluous, for me, regardless, would be superfluous, but then I don't work for CCP :)

I guess it's just a matter of time before people get used to have no signature images here.

Actually, what's going to happen is that part of the users will continue to complain, and in return fanboys will argue that we are getting this forum upgrade for free and that this is a distributed release and that CCP will surely iterate very soon.

while we're gettting dev responces. any chance of a reason we cant have coloured text? was that a security issue also?

Heh, really ? is that hard to understand ?

For starters, forums are linked to your EveGate account, therefore everything else, hijacking of your account, your details, eventually in the future when everything is consolidated in the same platform (evegate) your API data, etc, etc.

On other forums what have u got to loose ? possibly a password, and the revealing of your email, hence those forums rarely bother about any kind of security related to session hijacking and or other vulnerabilities.

Actually I think anyone who tries to argue that the forum upgrade was "FREE" needs to look at what 72,000 man hours can buy ya.

So the logical conclusion is to separate the forums from the account management. No?

I know, makes too much sense for CCP.